Oscar Shafer, the chairman of Rivulet Capital, recommended Hertz, citing the consolidation in the rental car company.
Trace Urdan, analyst at San Francisco-based Signal Hill Capital, recommends buying shares of Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
At a recent ADR price of $37, Telmex carries an enterprise value (market value of equity, plus debt, minus cash) of five times trailing operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization); the corresponding ratio for Verizon is 9. Oswaldo Sandoval of hedge fund Explorador Capital recommends América Móvil.
Placed in charge of the water project, Meigs surveyed the area around the capital, ultimately recommending an aqueduct to Great Falls, Va.
Granted, the latest European bank capital plan recommends that "government backstops should be made available" to make up any capital shortfalls.
Martin Marietta Materials's stock plunged sharply seconds after Mr. Einhorn, the Greenlight Capital founder, recommended shorting the company's shares on Wednesday at the Ira Sohn Conference in New York.
In December, however, a state commission on capital punishment recommended that Maryland abolish the death penalty because of the high cost and the danger of executing an innocent person.
He repeatedly said that the problem wasn't bad credit but market fears, so he encouraged banks to raise more capital and recommended other forms of financial engineering that didn't gain traction.
(It's a sign of how rapidly Washington opinion has moved that, writing only four years ago, even Wurmser considered it inadvisable for the United States "to go to war solo, to liberate and occupy an Arab capital," and recommended the empowerment of the Iraqi National Congress to overthrow Saddam).
Mr. Kindlon said he left Washington feeling fairly confident, in part because he knew that federal prosecutors back in Binghamton had not recommended capital punishment.
